gorru

plural gorrus

1. IndiaA traditional seed drill.

   Nitrogen and P205 are to be applied in gorru lines and covered before sowing.

   1973, Farm and Factory - Volume 8, page 34

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   The seed is then either sown broadcast and ploughed in twice, or else it is drilled in with the gorru and covered up and levelled with the guntaka.

   1891, Sir George Watt, Linum to Oyster, page 579

   This is almost always done with a most ingenious drill, called in Telugu a gorru, and hardly ever by sowing broad-cast. The gorru has either three teeth or six. Three is the usual number.

   1905, W. Francis, Anantapur, page 44

   Part of one field was sown with the gorru by the 25th, but the remainder of this field and all the others were sown only after November 1st, because the almost daily rain made the land unworkable.

   1908, Madras (India : Presidency). Dept. of Agriculture, Report on the Operations of the Dept. of Agriculture, Madras Presidency, page 23

   A team consists of one air with three-tined gorru, tines 10 inches apart, one pair with guntaka, two drivers and one or two women (if mixed crop) and they will drill 2½ acres a day, working the guntaka before and after the drilling.

   1916, Agricultural College (Coimbatore, India), A Note-book of Agricultureal Facts and Figures, page 35

   Gorrus or indigenous seed drills, with one and two seed hoppers, and akkadi tied to the second tine of the drill on the right. There are different sizes of gorrus suitable for sowing different crops.

   1960, V. T. Subbiah Mudaliar, South Indian Field Crops: By V.T.Subbiah Mudaliar